NorthShoreWx

000NOUS61 KOKX 031615FTMOKXMessage Date: Feb 03 2026 16:15:43KOKX radar will be down for maintenance today until ~2330z.

With the hard crust on top of the snow, it really stands out how much the deer crap everywhere here.

Temperature got briefly up to 33 here. With the clouds that have moved in, its back down to 30.7° This morning's low was 15° We've really not been radiating well so far this winter compared to usual. I'm not sure why. I suspect that the windier than normal conditions on average is part of it, but not necessarily the only factor.

The 2020's might be what is skewing the means. There's more than just cc at work in those awful 2020's March's. There is also coincidence. Let's revisit this discussion in 5 years.

March snow has never been long lasting. If snow is lasting on the ground through roughly mid-March, it is generally because it has built up over the winter. 2018 a wee bit of an exception. Despite the snowfall, it wasn't cold. Here is my record: YYYY MM DD Low High Precip Snowfall Snow Depth 2018 3 1 38 62 2018 3 2 35 42 1.8 0.1 2018 3 3 35 46 1.23 0.0005 2018 3 4 33 44 0.0005 2018 3 5 32 39 0.0005 0.0005 2018 3 6 29 48 0.0005 2018 3 7 32 36 0.07 8.4 2018 3 8 30 46 1.21 0.7 7 2018 3 9 28 42 0.0005 5 2018 3 10 28 42 4 2018 3 11 28 47 2 2018 3 12 30 43 0.0005 1 2018 3 13 32 39 0.2 5.7 2 2018 3 14 29 44 0.6 0.3 3 2018 3 15 30 49 0.0005 2 2018 3 16 28 40 1 2018 3 17 26 47 T 2018 3 18 26 40 T 2018 3 19 25 44 T 2018 3 20 28 37 0.0005 T 2018 3 21 31 37 0.01 9.1 T 2018 3 22 31 49 1.44 4.5 13 2018 3 23 33 51 7 2018 3 24 33 49 4 2018 3 25 30 43 0.0005 1 2018 3 26 27 48 T 2018 3 27 26 45 T 2018 3 28 37 53 T 2018 3 29 44 52 T 2018 3 30 44 60 0.02 2018 3 31 39 60 2018 4 1 41 62 0.05 2018 4 2 29 42 0.4 6.1 6 2018 4 3 27 43 0.12 2 2018 4 4 40 55 0.23 T

Some northeast rainfall totals 2/3-5/1952 from the remnants of that tropical storm (rain or mostly rain everywhere): EWR 0.45" Central Park 0.64" Bridgeport, CT 0.51" Cutchogue, NY 1.37" Edgarton, MA 0.34" Plymouth, MA 0.82" Boston, 1.22" Peru, VT 0.78" (0.3" snowfall) Pinkham Notch, NH 1.23" (4.5" snowfall)

Mping says yes: https://mping.ou.edu/display/

Ugh, sobering progression

28.4" north Smithtown NY

I was thinking this morning that ASOS stations were more likely to not go over 32 since presumably they are better shielded than the typical PWS. We got to 34 here.

31° here at 12:30. Mostly 28 - 31 on the PWS's around here. It'll crack 32.

Both of those storms were blizzards here.

I'll enjoy spring when it comes. In the meantime, I intend to continue enjoying winter. A pint by our rock fire ring next to the woods sounds good, but at the moment, I can't even tell where it is.

I have a 30 year old roof that's about to be replaced. I probably should have done it already. There will be ice shield with the new roof. Our first house was in West Babylon (back when a couple of kids could afford to buy a house) and the first time I ever saw water inside from a roof ice dam was in that house in February of 1994. I went up on the roof and shoveled the snow off it. This roof is much more difficult to access (and higher), plus I'm 30 years older now and my wife is very much against me going up there. We'll see; she's a wuss, but I think she will prevail this time.

It's a bitch to disappear those water stains from the ceiling. The slow meltout in the sun with below freezing temps is the worst, otherwise the ice dam melts too

I don't like this look on the roof. I've seen it not end well in the past.

Long Island Sound was starting to slush over on Smithtown Bay yesterday. Any atmospheric physicists want to weigh in on whether that freezing process is keeping things a little warmer along the north shore than they would have been? On another note: although cold, a lot of days and nights recently have been running above forecast but today is running colder than forecast. Doesn't look like we'll make it any higher than about 20.

And that blowing snow in the background!

There were some places that got hammered and large screw zones in NC. Not saying we behave any better, but we've had more practice at dealing with these situations.

Of which year?

Gulf-effect rain showers at Key West with surface temps in the low 50s. Water temps around 70 (20/21c) and 850s there are slightly below 0. That's about as close to snowing as EYW is ever going to get. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=BYX-N0Q-1-24-100-usa-rad

October 1976 too. That was the last time Central Park got down to the 20s in October.

That's a low threshold for disaster